One Big Beach gets smaller as Surfside homeowners close area to beach driving

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Jul 30, 2009 at 2:00 AM

By Jason Graziadei

I&M Senior Writer

A popular strip of Nantucket’s south shore that had been used for decades by beach drivers and fishermen was quietly closed to four-wheel drive vehicles this year after a group of Western Avenue residents petitioned the selectmen to remove the property from the town-issued beach driving map.

Although the town’s beach map was altered this year to reflect the change, it was never formally announced that beach drivers were no longer permitted to drive between the access points at South Shore Road, Surfside and Nobadeer. Beach officers have been patrolling that section of the south shore this summer, asking vehicles to move along and even ticketing some motorists.

What was a yellow zone on last year’s beach driving map, denoting an area that could be used by drivers between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., is now a prohibited red zone on this year’s map, breaking up what had been the longest continuous stretch of sand where beach driving had been permitted -nearly two miles - into two separate sections.

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